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Angular distributions of muon pairs produced by negative pions on deuterium and tungsten

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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We present the angular distributions of high-mass muon pairs produced in a high-statistics experiment by 140 and 194 GeV/c π− beams impinging on a tungsten target, and by 286 GeV/c π− beam on deuterium and tungsten targets. We find no evidence for a center-of-mass energy dependence or a nuclear dependence of the angular distribution parameters. The two parameters λ and μ are found to be essentially independent of any kinematical variable. In contrast, the parameterv increase with the dimuon transverse momentumP T , at variance with recent perturbative QCD predictions. Our statistics at largex 1 are insufficient to substantiate the highertwist prediction.

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  1. D. A. Jensen

    Present address: Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

  2. K. Freudenreich

    Present address: ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

  3. P. Bordalo

    Present address: LIP, Lisbon, Portugal

  4. J. J. Blaising, A. Degre & R. Morand

    Present address: LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France

Authors and Affiliations

  1. ETH, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    M. Guanziroli, D. A. Jensen, P. Le Coultre, H. Suter & V. L. Telegdi

  2. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    K. Freudenreich

  3. Università di Napoli and INFN Sezione di Napoli, I-80125, Napoli, Italy

    A. Ereditato & P. Strolin

  4. Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128, Palaiseau, France

    P. Bordalo, Ph. Busson, L. Kluberg, A. Romana, R. Salmeron & C. Vallée

  5. CRN and Université Louis Pasteur, F-67037, Strasbourg, France

    J. J. Blaising, A. Degre, P. Juillot, R. Morand & M. Winter

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NA 10 Collaboration., Guanziroli, M., Jensen, D.A. et al. Angular distributions of muon pairs produced by negative pions on deuterium and tungsten. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 37, 545–556 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01549713

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